The Dad Pact Rewards: Gear For You And Your New Dad Friend

Ten Things Every Dad Wishes He'd Actually Get At A Baby Shower

Just because your best friend has become a new dad doesn’t mean the fun times are over. Although his brand spanking new baby will understandably be taking up most of his time, you can still get together and play with some cool toys. So with that in mind, here are ten cool gadgets or activities you and him can still play with, despite that baby attempting to come between you.

Unofish Basketballs

Unofish

When your friend has an hour or two to kill and he wants to do some venting, take him out to the court and shoot some hoops. But instead of using a lame orange ball, opt to get him one of Unofish's unique b-balls. Made from genuine Italian leather and covered with various animal skins, the ball itself might not make him the next Steph Curry, but at least he'll look cool hitting the rim (or air).

Diplomacy

Volo Media

Diplomacy is like Risk but with all the lying, strategy and backstabbing of real-world politics. It’s a quest to conquer Europe by making strategic deals and alliances with other players. You can play online with your friend (and others) for days waiting for the right moment to stab your friend in the back as you take over control of Western Europe.

Lily Camera

Lily

The Lily Camera is a camera drone that you can launch simply by throwing it in the air. You can also program it to follow you while you kayak, hike or mountain bike. Even if you won’t be doing those things with your friend for a while, you could still get some incredibly dramatic footage of you two playing one-on-one basketball at the park.

Scharpling & Wurster Box Set

The Numero Group

Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster have been doing the acclaimed comedy radio show The Best Show since Clinton was president. The new Scharpling & Wurster Box Set complies 20 hours of clips from the show’s run. If you or your friend weren’t already fans, it’s the perfect way to get into what has consistently been some of the best comedy in the past 15 years. Always been a fan? You’ve probably forgotten some stuff so you should get it anyway.

Quizup

Quizup

There are plenty of quiz apps to choose from, but not many of them have raised over $26 million from investors. Quiz did. That means it’s pretty good. With over 680 categories to choose from, there will be plenty of questions to keep you and your friend challenging each other to determine who’s actually smarter.

Bluetooth Surround Sound Speaker

JBL

Your friend probably won’t be able to leave the house as much, so you may be spending time watching movies or sports at his house. You might as well have good sound, so get him this JBL Bluetooth speaker. The sound will be so great you might even get into watching Dora the Explorer or whatever kids watch these days.

#IDARB

Other Ocean Inc.

#IDARB (it draws a red box) is a minimalist multiplayer online game that is becoming a sensation among gamers. The object of the game is to score points by running, throwing or bouncing a ball into the opponents’ goal. You can keep it that simple. Or you can sabotage your opponents via twitter with #hashbombs. Create characters, music and new rules. Don’t be surprised if this takes over your life.

Draft Kings

Draft Kings

Fantasy sports is a great way to interact with friends who may be busy with kids. But if they have a kid in June, you have to wait until September to draft a team, right? Not anymore. With DraftKings you can draft a fantasy baseball (or any sport that’s playing) team every day and compete against friends or strangers. Just make sure you don’t take your friend’s kid’s college money.

iPad Foosball Table

Stuart Ross

These days, his chances to head out to the bar to play some pool or foosball are few and far between. So why not bring the games to him? Using a 30 pin adapter, this nifty and portable table attaches to an iPad and works with the integrated Classic Match Football app to give you guys hours of armless soccer fun.

Game Golf

Game Golf

You and your friend may not be able to play as much golf as you used to, but you can play better golf. Game Golf tries to fix the one problem most golfers have: They actually have no idea how far they hit their clubs. After attaching smart gold to each club and then clocking where you hit the ball and where you reached your ball, the GPS will measure the distance and log it to be viewed later.